One must choose in life between boredom and torment.

A nation has character only when it is free.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Music revives the recollections it would appease.

A man must know how to brave public opinion, a woman how to submit to it.

We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.